The lawsuits are piling up against Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse and political ad targeting scandal. According to SF Gate the company has been hit with four suits in federal courts so far this week following fresh revelations …

Microbiome therapeutics, Photoshop for augmented reality, and cancer treatments were some of the ideas presented at Day 2 of startup accelerator Y Combinator’s Winter 2018 Demo Day. YC is increasingly using its massive class size (141 startups this time around) to fund …

Instagram’s next big Stories feature could let you compliment or trash talk other people’s feed posts, or embed a “see post” button to promote your own. A TechCrunch reader sent us these screenshots of the new feature, which Instagram confirmed to us …

Startup founders, they’re just like us. HQ — the popular trivia app that almost gave away $25,000 to one lucky winner on Sunday — has been pulled from the App Store due to one tiny, but important mistake. The person behind the …

Facebook is using us. It is actively giving away our information. It is creating an echo chamber in the name of connection. It surfaces the divisive and destroys the real reason we began using social media in the first place – human …

Google might have outdone itself with the best Google Maps easter egg yet. The latest version of the app includes a new ‘Mario Time’ feature that allows the classic Nintendo character to drive along with you on your route. SEE ALSO: Shaun …

Multi-taskers, rejoice: Google just made it a lot easier to search while texting with friends. The company just introduced an update that adds an iMessage extension to Google’s iOS app. This means you can search and share results without ever having to …

Google Chrome’s Android app just got a small but extremely helpful update that makes it much easier to share links. The latest version of Chrome will not automatically “clean up” unwieldy URLs before you share them so you know longer need to …

One of the best features in iOS 11 was the addition of new markup features that made it much easier to edit screenshots without having to go find them in the Photos app. Now, Google is coming out with its own take. …

Animated GIFs are about to take over Instagram Stories. The photo-sharing app added support Tuesday for animated GIF stickers to Stories in an update rolling out to Instagram’s iPhone and Android apps. SEE ALSO: Instagram is testing another killer feature that could …